Designing a preferences dialog in Glade
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Original author(s) | Damon Chaplin |
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Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
Initial release | 18 April 1998 |
Stable release | 3.20.0 (for GTK+ 3.x) 3.8.5 (for GTK+ 2.x) (22 March 2016 12 May 2014 ) |
Repository | github |
Development status | Active |
Written in | C, XML |
Operating system | Unix-like, Windows |
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License | GNU General Public License |
Website | glade |
Glade Interface Designer is a graphical user interface builder for GTK+, with additional components for GNOME. In its third version, Glade is programming language–independent, and does not produce code for events, but rather an XML file that is then used with an appropriate binding (such as GtkAda for use with the Ada programming language). See List of language bindings for GTK+ for the available ones.
Glade is free and open-source software distributed under the GNU General Public License.
The first Glade release, version 0.1, was made on 18 April 1998.
Glade 3 was released on 12 August 2006. According to the Glade Web site, the most noticeable differences for the end-user are:
Most of the difference is in the internals. Glade-3 is a complete rewrite, in order to take advantage of the new features of GTK+ 2 and the GObject system (Glade-3 was started when Glade-1 hadn't yet been ported to GTK+ 2). Therefore, the Glade-3 codebase is smaller and allows new interesting things, including:
On 5 April 2011, two parallel installable stable Glade versions were released:
On 11 June 2015 Glade 3.19.0 was released. It depends at least on GTK+ 3.16.0. Among many bug fixes this version is the first to support the widgets GtkStack, GtkHeaderBar and GtkSidebar.
GtkBuilder is the XML format that the Glade Interface Designer uses to save its forms. These documents can then be used in conjunction with the GtkBuilder object to instantiate the form using GTK+. GladeXML is the XML format that was used with conjunction with libglade, which is now deprecated.
Glade Interface Designer automatically generates all the source code for a graphical control element.